The president of a start-up studio Ready at Dawn has derided PSP developers for making excuses for putting out bad games. Sure, he’s talking about the PSP and not mobile phones, but I think the idea applies to mobiles also…
“Everything is compromised, and it bugs the hell out of me when you hear a lot of developers saying, ‘Well, we can’t do this that way because it’s a handheld game,’ or ‘We can’t do this because it doesn’t have a second analog stick.'”…”Those are all excuses,” Malenfant continued – observing that the original PSone controller didn’t have any analog sticks, “And there were great games on that.”
“For me that’s terribly exciting, because I tend to play my PSP a lot more than any other console, simply because it’s portable. I don’t want to end up playing sub-par games just because I’m on a handheld, which up to [the arrival of the PSP] has been what we’ve had to do.”
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